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Should the UK introduce compulsory vaccination?

Publication date:
29 April 2013

Dr Helen Bedford (UCL Institute of Child Health) writes that sustained work at a local level, rather than compulsory immunisation, is the best means of increasing vaccine uptake and achieving herd immunity. Read: Lancet

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Publication date:
29 April 2013

"Our education system has a one-size-fits-all approach; it would do better to facilitate and foster late, as well as early, learning," writes Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience). Read: Guardian

The Caribbean: A darkening debt storm

Publication date:
29 April 2013

Hugo Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, will sooner or later be faced with some tough decisions. Opposition politicians have called for an end to the discounted oil shipments. “A lot of the smaller countries depend on the continuation of Chavismo in Venezuela,” says Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas (UCL Institute of the Americas). Read: FT

John Dickie: A raid at a mafia boss’ villa uncovered a copy of my book

Publication date:
29 April 2013

Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) comments on a BBC documentary he presents about the Italian Mafia: "The mafia take their history very seriously. They’ve all got myths of how they were legends founded in the middle ages by Spanish knights." Watch: BBCRead: Scottish SunMore: BBC

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Middle classes get quicker cancer care

Publication date:
29 April 2013

"I don't believe that access to the treatment is significantly different between classes in the UK, but it may be a combination of factors," said Dr Jayant Vaidya (UCL General Surgery). Read: Independent